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: Alaska has finally been mapped as precisely as Mars.

We can only see planets up to 13.8 billion light years far because the universe is 13.8 billion light years old.

John Couch Adams calculated the existence of Neptune, using mathematics before the planet was ever observed.

In 1997, 3 men from Yemen tried to sue NASA for invading Mars, claiming they had inherited it from their ancestors 3,000 years ago.

The order of the planets from closest to the Sun outwards is; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and finally Neptune.

The Mars One project is seeking to colonize Mars by 2023. The astronaut or colonists will spend the rest of their lives on the red planet.

There is a large hole 150 meters across on Mars, who bottom has not yet been seen.

Triton, Neptune is largest moon, has geysers that shoot ice 5 miles high and may be geologically active.

63 Earths can fit inside Uranus

There is a giant smiley-face shaped crater on Mars.

Earth is only marginally habitable. Some of the Earth-like exoplanets might potentially be far more hospitable to life than Earth is.

Other planets such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have auroras with different colors.

Technically, our planet is inside the Sun atmosphere

The sun light needs to pass more and more through the atmosphere.

The planet Venus is nearly identical in size to Earth. Their radius differ in size by only 201 miles, with Earth being the larger.